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2. Cuscuta hyalina, Both, Nov. PI. Sp. (1821) p. 100 (not of 

 Wight). Stems very slender, closely twiuing, much-branched, forming 

 often a tangled mass. Flowers in fascicles or in shortly pedunculate 

 cymes or racemes ; pedicels O-i in. long ; bracts g in. long, lanceolate, 

 acute. Calyx g in. long, divided rather more than |-\vay down ; lobes 

 5 (rarely 4), ovate, acute or acuminate, slightly unequal. Corolla g in. 

 long, 5 (rarely 4) -lobed ; lobes y^y in. long, ovate-lanceolate, very acute, 

 or acuminate ; scales 0. Filaments distinct, J0-3V in. long. Styles 2, 

 slender, distinct, jLr in. long. Capsules -^^ in. in diam., subglobose, 

 membranous, irregularly breaking up from the base. Seeds 2-4, ovoid 

 or suborbicular, compressed, -^ in. in diam., crowned by the persistent 

 styles, ri. B. I. v. 4, p. 22(3 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. Nat. v. 12 

 (1898) p. 172; Engelm. Cuscut. p. 40. Cuscuta arabica, Wight, Icon, 

 t. 1371 {not of Eresen,). G. ox-ypetala, Boiss. Diag. ser. ii, v. 3, fasc. 3, 

 p. 130; Aitch. Pb. & Sind PI. p. 101.— Flowers : June-Aug. Veen. 

 Amhar. 



In the Bombay Presidency apparently confined to Sind. Sind : Wight], Woodroiu, 

 Bhola Piiran, 164!; Magar Pir, Kanitkarl; Jemadar ka Landa near Karachi, 

 Stocks ] — DisTRiB. India (W. Peninsula); Belucbistan, Abyssinia. 



3. Cuscuta chinensls, Laml: Eneyc. Method, v. 2 (1786) p. 229. 

 Stems filiform, twining, much-branched, often forming a tangled mass. 

 Flowers solitary or in shortly pedunculate cymes ; pedicels short ; bracts 

 ovate, 2V in. long. Calyx ^ in. long, divided rather less than |-way 

 down ; lobes deltoid -ovate, subobtuse, often with a tubercular keel on 

 the back. Corolla j*q- in. long ; lobes about equalling the tube, ovate- 

 oblong, subobtuse ; scales at the base of the filaments fimbriate. 

 Filaments -^-^ in. long. Styles 2, distinct, -^ in. long. Capsules hardly 

 y^y in. in diam., globose, hyaline, divided into 2 lobes by a deep furrow 

 on top. Seeds y^^^ in. long, visuallv 4. Fl. B. I. v. 4, p. 226 ; Wight, 

 Icon. t. 1373 ; Trim Fl. Ceyl. v. 3, p. 229 ; Woodr. in Journ. Bomb. 

 Nat. V. 12 (1898) p. 172 ; Engelm. Cu.scut. p. 29. Cuscuta sulcata, Eoxb. 

 Hort. Beng. p. 12 ; Grab. Cat. p. 134, —Flowers : June-July. 



Not common. Deccan : Poona, CooJcel; Nasik, VadcJcarl — Disteib. Tlirougliout 

 the greater part of India ; Ceylon, Persia, Australia. 



2. ERYCIBE, Eoxb. 



Scandent or rambling shrubs (rarely trees). Leaves alternate, entire, 

 coriaceous. Flowers small, in axillary or terminal racemes or panicles ; 

 bracts small, lanceolate. Sepals subequal, orbicular, coriaceous, appressecl 

 to the base of the fruit. Corolla white or yellowish ; tube shortly 

 campanulate, hairy outside ; limb plaited in bud ; lobes 5, imbricate, 

 each lobe deeply cut into 2 induplicate plaited segments, so that the 

 limb appears 10-lobed. Stamens 5, subincluded, inserted on the corolla- 

 throat ; filaments short ; anthers ovate-lanceolate. Ovary 1-celled ; 

 ovules 4 ; style ; stigma large, subglobose or conic, 5- or 10-ridged. 

 Fruit a berry, ovoid or ellipsoid. Seed solitary, glabrous ; albumen 

 scanty, intruded between the folds of fleshy cotyledons ; radicle inferior. — 

 DiSTBiB. Asia and Tropical Australia ; species about 12. 



1. Erycibe paniculata, Roxh. Cor. PI. v. 2 (1798) p. 31, t. 159. 



A large scandent shrub ; branches long, flexuose, more or less angular. 



